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The Bachelor Canada: Loose lips still get roses

A competitor's indiscretion ratchets up the tension, but someone else goes home.

Bachelorettes Sachelle, Trisha, Lisa, April and Kaylynn wait to find out who Tim Warmels will give roses to in Sansepolcro, Italy, on the Oct. 21 episode of The Bachelor Canada. (Pietro Paolini / ROGERS MEDIA)

Last week, it was Tim smooching Kaylynn in front of the other women that caused a kerfuffle; this week it was Lisa kissing some guy in a bar.

You might think such an indiscretion would be a firing offence. After all, while the Bachelor gets to date multiple women and, if he’s doing things right, kiss as many of them as possible, the women are supposed to have eyes only for him, even while enduring the discomfort of watching him step out with other ladies. That’s what they sign up for.

Yet, to hear Sachelle tell it, Lisa had eyes and lips for a man she encountered in a bar in Sansepolcro, Italy, when the women went for a night out.

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And it wasn’t just a peck: Sachelle told Tim she had to pull Lisa off the guy and then caught her kissing him again.

In Lisa’s version, however, it was just one of those European double cheek kisses gone awry and she was so, so sorry.

The question was which of these versions Tim would believe.

Apparently Lisa’s since he gave her a rose on Tuesday, ensuring she would get one of the coveted hometown dates.

Mind you, it’s possible that Tim just wanted off the Kaylynn crying express and Lisa was getting a rose no matter whom she kissed.

Hard to say since we can’t get inside Tim’s head, but Kaylynn was the one he cut loose.

The promo for next week suggests Tim’s not completely sold on Lisa’s story since he asks her again to tell him what happened.

So Lisa’s indiscretion was one of the night’s revelations. Another was that Trisha went from being comic relief to a final two contender.

She and Tim went on a one-on-one that he described as “the most romantic date I’ve ever been on.”

They had dinner in old-town Sansepolcro and Tim was looking for a “deep, serious connection.” And like magic, there it was. He confessed to Trisha that he was scared of “falling for somebody and then back it comes to the end and getting shut down.” That surprised Trisha but also pleased her to hear that Tim had doubts.

“I never thought that I could open up like that,” Tim enthused. “Something just really changed and it changed in her and it changed in me.”

And he had another surprise: a box containing a Michael Hill pendant and earring set, or as Trish described it “diamonds on diamonds on diamonds on diamonds.”

“This date is like a movie but better ’cause it’s real,” she said. (Well, it’s a TV show, which is close to a movie, but let’s not rain on her parade.)

They walked arm in arm to a square where an accordionist played just for them as they danced and passionately kissed.

“I’m falling in love,” said Trisha.

While Trish was tripping the light fantastic, April and Kaylynn were learning the bad news that they’d be going on a group date along with Lisa.

Even before the bar visit, no one wanted to hang with her.

“She is competitive and she is here for the wrong reasons and she can be a nasty bitch,” said Sachelle.

“We’ve all seen her be nasty and we all know that Tim has a big problem with bullies, and if he only knew that about her he might not be making the decisions he’s making right now,” complained April.

Lisa claimed to be unconcerned with their opinions. “They’re catty, they’re unsure of themselves, they are the epitome of why I don’t like females,” she said.

(OK, the feminist in me was gritting her teeth at that remark. You are a female, honey, so does that mean you don’t like yourself?)

The next morning, the tension was through the roof after Lisa’s bar faux pas. But despite their anger at Lisa, the women didn’t want to rat her out to Tim; they were hoping she’d do it herself.

Of course, as soon as we heard what the date was — a painting competition in which whoever did the best job of rendering Tim, posing in what looked like a diaper, would win alone time with him — we all knew the winner was going to be Lisa.

She and Tim got to quaff champagne and watch the sun set over a gorgeous Tuscan view, and then they kissed a bunch.

It wasn’t until the walk back to the Casa Buitoni that Lisa finally told Tim she’d kissed another guy. Tim had a look on his face like he smelled something bad, but instead of getting angry he grabbed Lisa and held her.

It was pretty obvious that what was going down with Lisa would intrude on the next day’s one-on-one with Sachelle, during which she and Tim cooked pizzas together.

Sure enough, after they took their pizzas out to the sunny garden, Sachelle told Tim things between the women were getting “weird” and she didn’t want him to end up with someone he didn’t completely know. Asked to elaborate, Sachelle shared her version of the bar story. She said she was so upset about it she’d even been having trouble sleeping.

Interestingly, whereas Lisa’s confession elicited a hug from Tim, Sachelle’s elicited a tepid hand hold, and I couldn’t help feeling he was more annoyed than grateful that she’d spoken up.

The rose ceremony did nothing to shake that impression. After handing roses to Trisha, Sachelle and April, Tim took Lisa away for a chat before bestowing the final rose.

Was he going to grill her about Sachelle’s revelation? Nah, he just told her “I need you to say something to me right now” — might I suggest the truth would have been good? — and stared at her until she spluttered, “I am sick about what happened, I am absolutely crazy about you and I did not expect to be. I understand if this is it for us, but I don’t want this to be the end. I think we actually have something special. I’m sorry.”

They walked back to the other women. Tim looked down, he closed his eyes, he waited . . . and waited . . . and gave his rose to Lisa.

Kaylynn, who was crying but relatively calm, hugged every woman except Lisa and left after an extended hug with Tim, saying she felt cheated and broken.

Next week, it’s hometowns. There’s hockey with Trisha, tears from April, Sachelle saying the date is ruined, somebody’s relative telling Tim she can see through him and, of course, his chat with Lisa.

It airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. on City.

I’ll be away next week, but Bachelor fan Tony Wong will provide the recap. I’ll be back in time for the fantasy suite dates.

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